Word: aly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ali, currently preparing for an unprecedented fourth attempt at the heavyweight title, could not be reached for comment...
...Ali will not receive a fee for his speech, only airfare from his Deer Lake, Pa. training camp and overnight accomodations for himself, his wife Belinda, a bodyguard and his manager, Howard Bingham...
...Ali first won the heavyweight title in 1964 on a seventh-round knockout of Sonny Liston. Stripped of the crown in 1967 after he refused to serve in the military, he regained it in his eight-round knockout of George Foreman in the Kinshasa, Zaire, "Rumble in the Jungle" of 1974. After losing to Leon Spinks in 1978, Ali regained the title for an unprecendented third time when he defeated Spinks later that year...
Wiedemann said the class made Ali an honorary member after his first speech and may offer him a "plaque or parchment" at Saturday's speech...
...Ali insisted on the topic "Intoxications of Life" and wanted an appropriate setting for such an address, Wiedemann, editor of Campaigns and Elections magazine, said...